Author(s): DELING MA ,GORDH GORDON, ZALUCKI MYRON P
Interpretive Summary:
Cotton bollworm is an important pest of cotton in many areas. A potential strategy for control of this pest involves preventing female bollworms from laying eggs on plants. We applied environmentally friendly compounds to cotton plants in order to determine whether the compounds would prevent egg lying by moths. We tested an oil extract of the neem tree and a commercially available product (Envirofeast) against bollworm grown at Dalby, Australia. Experiments showed that neem oil was more effective than controls at reducing egg numbers of bollworms in cotton.
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